Word: dishonorables
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...little of their Nordic earnestness, and exchange a little of their burning fervor for the more suave encounters of Latin contestants. So long as the spectators fill football with the same excitement with which the Pilgrims fought the devil, so long as they feel that it is a dishonor to lose and a matter of conscience to win, the same rigid regime of fasting and praying will train the povitiates for self-dedication to sport. When a football match becomes the amusement of a holiday afternoon, when the bleachers abandon their zestful purpose of inspiration and guidance--, then athletics will...
...stigma in defeat. Captain Greenough and his team mates, therefore, may look back on the game with no feeling of self-accusation in being unable to accomplish the impossible. They gave their utmost--even more--and it is not their fault that it was not enough. There is no dishonor in defeat at the hands of a superior opponent...
...former reports, however, the Council wishes to record its condemnation of this pernicious practice wherever it may be found, and to urge component societies and constituent associations to purge their membership of any who wilfully refuse to desist from such practice, the continuance of which can only bring dishonor and reproach on the medical profession...
...auspices of the Women's National Committee on Law Enforcement. They will meet at two luncheons, hear an assortment of speeches, call on Mrs. Coolidge, see a pageant (America the Beautiful, in which under the eyes of the watching nations, law will battle with lawlessness, honor with dishonor, and wisdom with ignorance, showing the successive steps of the gaining of Prohibition and the means by which law is now broken), and pass resolutions...
General Edwards wants his country to avoid "peace at any price" or "peace with dishonor". So do ninety-nine out of a hundred of the pacifists he attacks. The avoidance of dishonorable peace does not, however, require incessant preparation for war nor a willingness to fight at the drop of the hat. It merely asks us to fight only when every conceivable honorable expedient has been tried to keep the country out of war. Countries armed to the teeth and with a conscious sense of military power are apt to be less fertile in finding and interested in following expedients...